Tag: California

In my last few weeks at the Times, I’ve largely been preoccupied with imagining and building our election data widgets for use on election night. It might seem silly to spend so much time preparing for an event that’s over so quickly. But I think we’ve found at least one app that’ll last long enough to make it worth the effort. It’s our California county-by-county map, and I think it’s way cool.

Our newest database project, launched today, is a guide to schools in California with test scores, demographics and other useful info on public schools in the state. (Private schools are listed too, but there’s less good info available on them.)

Data guru Ben Welsh (of L.A.’s Top Dogs fame) is the brains behind this project, also built in Django (which, it’s safe to say, has become the framework of choice for our editorial data projects).